The Power of Gratitude

There is a natural Law of Gratitude, it is necessary for you to observe this law in order to advance your recovery. The law of gratitude is a natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions. The grateful outreaching of your mind to the universe of Higher Power is an expression and liberation of energy, it cannot fail to reach whom it was addressed to, the reaction will be an instantaneous movement of that which you are wishing for, towards you.

The power of gratitude does not just mean however that you will be blessed in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thoughts regarding things, such as your health, as they are. The moment you allow your mind to dwell on dissatisfaction upon things as they are, you begin to lose ground on advancing your recovery, or in receiving those things that which you have wished for. If you fix your attention on the illness and lack, your mind takes the form of these things. More illness and lack will come to you.

On the other hand, when you focus your attention on all that you do have, the health and difabilities, and then express strong and continuous gratitude for these things, more ability and health will come to you. The mind and creative process within us makes us into the images of that to which we give our attention to. Focus on your strengths.

Faith
Faith is born of gratitude. The grateful mind continually expects good things and expectation becomes faith. The reaction of gratitude upon one’s own mind produces faith. Every outgoing emission of energy of grateful thanksgiving increases this faith and advances one’s recovery.
“Faith is not being sure… It is not being sure, and betting with your last cent.”
-Mary Jean Irion

One who has no feelings of gratitude cannot long retain a living faith; without a living faith, one cannot heal or fully recover using the creative process.
“Faith is not a passive but active virtue.”
-Bishop Fulton Sheen

Excerpt from my book: Acquired Hope! See also www.AcquiredHopeBook.com www.AcquiredHope.com and www.AbundantHopeBook.com

Universal Law: Law of Gratitude

The Law of Gratitude
The Universal Law of Gratitude states that the more grateful you are for what you have the more you will receive. Gratitude keeps you close to the Source, it is through gratitude that we stay connected. It is the Law of Gratitude that allows those who practice it to receive more and the same Law that takes away from those who do not practice it. If you want to stay connected to the flow of abundance, you must practice gratitude.

“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.” -Albert Schweitzer

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."-Brian Tracy

To live in alignment with this Universal Law, you should be grateful for everything in your life. Everything and everyone is there for a reason, be grateful for the opportunity to find that reason.

Gratitude Quotes: from "Acquired Hope" Book

Here are some quotes on gratitude from my book "Acquired Hope" chapter on Gratitude. Everyday should be lived with Gratitude. See www.AcquiredHope.com site for great resources.

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"Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road." -John Henry Jowett

“For each new morning with its light,For rest and shelter of the night,For health and food, for love and friends,For everything Thy goodness sends.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life." -Christiane Northrup

“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” -Margaret Cousins


“Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.” -G.B. Stern

Inspirational Quotes

Here are some terrific Inspirational Quotes from my book of daily reads of inspirational quotes and actions "365 Days of Abundant Hope" bringing and keeping Hope in your life is the difference between the winning way and losing! There are some great resources on my AcquiredHope.com website, enjoy!

"Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road." -John Henry Jowett

“The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.” -Brian Tracy

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.” -Liane Cordes

“We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.”-Dale Carnegie

“Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.”-Anthony Robbins

“Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

“Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there.” -Cullen Hightower


“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” - Buddha

First Universal Law

Universe means literally “one verse” or “one song”. Harmony by definition means “compatibility, in opinion and action; a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole”. What is important is to understand is that co-creating new results in your life, attracting abundance; affluence, which means “being in the flow”; wealth which literally means “well-being”; prosperity, which means “according to hope”, optimal health and meaningful relationships requires that you consistently live in harmony with the Laws that govern the Universe. Quite literally you must work in accordance with these Laws and not against them-whether it is a conscious effort or a subconscious one. Changing your life, your current results and manifesting your dreams are dependent on it.

If there is an area of your life that you seek to change, you want different results I strongly recommend taking the time to study these laws, write down on a piece of paper each one of these laws and how you can change your thoughts, feelings and actions to work in harmony with the laws. Do this for each area of your life that you seek change.

The Law of Perpetual Transmutation of Energy:
This Universal Law states that energy moves into physical form. Energy is neither created nor destroyed, it changes form. Change is energy’s only attribute, energy is always changing. This Universal Law means that all persons have within them the power to change, improve, and even dictate the conditions in their lives. The images you hold in your mind are the ones that most often materialize in your life.

Higher energy always consumes and transforms lower energy, just as light overtakes the dark when you turn on the light in a dark room. The key here is that we live in an ocean of motion; energy is changing forms continuously in our lives. Something is moving into form in your life right now and you have the ability to dictate what is moving into form in your life, when you understand these universal laws. Every one of us can change the energies and therefore physical manifestations in our lives by understanding this Universal Laws and applying the principles in such a way as to effect positive change.

“Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine”. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gratitude: Keep Your Eye On The Hole!

"As you wander on through life, sister/brother, whatever be your goal, keep your eye upon the donut, and not upon the hole."
-Sign up in the Mayflower Coffee shop, Chicago

Learn to enjoy the journey, not just the destination. Your sense of gratitude can keep you going, in spite of your current situation or results. When you live and stay connected, through continuous gratitude, your life improves, changes, and you become effective and efficient at harnessing the power of the law of attraction and other universal laws.

There is something very special about living in gratitude and acting as if, we can experience anything we desire, in spite of your current results. Each of us has our trials and tribulations, when we learn to feel grateful for everything, even our challenges, the world begins to bend around us.

It is really all about how you decide to look at things and where choose to direct your attention to.Today, take an opportunity to focus on all the good things that happen to you and all the good things in your life.

Tonight as you drift off to sleep, quietly say thank you for each and everything good thing in your day and life. You will feel so much more alive.

Thank You Cards, Lists and Numbers

"Let's feel the magic of those two little, big words "thank you."

-Ardath Rodale

Practicing the habit of saying thank you or sending thank you cards is one way to harness the incredible power of the law of gratitude and the law of cause and effect. Learn to say thank you as often as you can. For big things, and small. When you do, you consciously and subconsciously send a message to the universe that you are aware that you have received good (all things can be good, no matter how bad they may seem). This helps to keep you in a positive state, a higher vibration, one of gratitude, optimism, and abundance.

When we say thank you, we are reminded of the good that comes our way, that good things do happen to us every day, that we are blessed, loved and protected and provided for. That everything we need will come to us, that we are already connected to it.

Additionally, it has wonderful effects on the people who receive our words of gratitude. We help to raise their vibration and makes them realize their efforts are noted and appreciated. This in effect will continue the chain of giving and receiving and the higher vibrations of living in a state of gratitude.

Here are some great suggestions, make a list of 25 things that you are grateful for, send thank you cards to people who have done nice things for you in the past, or spend the day saying thank you to all the kindness that comes your way, at the end of the day, count those "thank you"s and just watch in awe how truly blessed you are. They will increase just by the fact that you are directing your attention to them and by law, via the law of attraction and vibration, more blessings will come your way.

Enjoy your blessed new year, happy 2008!

The Ordinary Can Become the Extraordinary

When you live in harmony with the law of attraction and other universal laws, you can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.......

"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be do. One day I shall dig my nails into earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return."

- Mary Jean Iron


I love to feel the blessings of an ordinary day, when I do, I feel so much more joy and fulfillment. I feel the love and gratitude flowing through me, then the day becomes extraordinary. And you know what, that is when the magic happens, things just turn out better, "lucky" things happen. But in reality it is the universal laws at work, the law of gratitude, law of attraction and the law of cause and effect. Focus on what you can give back to the world, and you will be rewarded.

Choose Gratefulness In Spite of Your Current Results

"As you wander on through life, sister/brother, whatever be your goal, keep your eye upon the donut, and not upon the hole."

-Sign up in the Mayflower Coffee shop, Chicago


Learn to enjoy the journey, not just the destination. Your sense of gratitude can keep you going, in spite of your current situation or results. When you live and stay connected, through continuous gratitude, your life improves, changes, and you become effective and efficient at harnessing the power of the law of attraction and other universal laws.

There is something very special about living in gratitude and acting as if, we can experience anything we desire, in spite of your current results. Each of us has our trials and tribulations, when we learn to feel grateful for everything, even our challenges, the world begins to bend around us. It is really all about how you decide to look at things and where choose to direct your attention to.

Today, take an opportunity to focus on all the good things that happen to you and all the good things in your life. Tonight as you drift off to sleep, quietly say thank you for each and everything good thing in your day and life. You will feel so much more alive.

Our Attitudes Determine Everything!

Our attitudes determine our results, who we attract to us and how we live. Why not choose to live with an abundant attitude, one that thinks, feels and acts as if the Universe is abundant and there is only infinite opportunities and possibilities.

As we grow, or develop in mind, body and soul, as we become more self aware of our life purpose, goals and passions we recognize one of our spiritual responsbilities is to move into one-ness with the universe/God, our higher power. With this we move beyond living in an emotional reactive way to challenges in life to cultivating positive emotions as our habits. We learn to respond as opposed to react. We remain steadfast in our vision, focus and goals no matter what happens. We have a knowing that everything we need is already here or will come to us, that we can tackle anything that comes our way. We simply live as if life is meant to be abundant and that abundance is already here, we are already connected to it.

What this means is we learn to love even when we don't feel love, we are kind and generous, even when we would ordinarily complain or hoard, and we hold an image of abundance and never focus on lack or what we do not presently have, we live in a continous state of gratitude, even if we wouldn't ordinarily feel particularly thankful. Successful people, make feeling love, joy, optimism, hope, abundance and gratitude their way of being, their habit. After gaining a conscious awareness and with some work overcoming the conditioning that they grew up with, they make thinking, feeling and acting with an abundant attitude their life and way of living.

Our attitudes are our mental stances, they determine everything that comes to us, everyone we attract and they ultimately determine our results. Our attitudes are the glasses from which we view the universe and see the world. Do we see abundance, love and joy or do we see lack, poverty and fear? We can change the way we see the world by changing our thinking, by cultivating a positive attitude. When we live in joy, acquire hope, see only abundance and possibility, we begin to remake our world and we can literally change our conditions, our results and our place, simply because our attitudes have changed. My favorite quote from Dr. Dyer says is all, "Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change."

Additionally, the tremendous benefit of living with an abundant attitude, in faith and gratitude is that it keeps us connected to the universe and all that is providing. It is the recognition of this connection that is often the point of illumination and time when one opens up to the flow of abundance, the more grateful we are, the more of an abundance sense of life we will experience.

The more you cultivate the abundant attitude, even if you don't feel it, the more you consciously improve or change your attitude, the more you will feel it. The more loving we feel, the more love we receive, the more giving we are, the more that is given to us, the more abundant and successful we feel, the more success will be attracted to us, the healthier we feel, the more health and vitality we will experience. The more thankful we are, the more we experience the joys and richness of spirit that grateful feelings produce.

Open Your Soul, Heart and Mind: Be an Artist of Life

Open up your soul, your mind and your heart to allowing and recieving by living in a constant state of gratitude.

I love this quote:
" The most invisible creators I know of are those artists whose medium is life itself. The ones who express the inexpressible---without brush, hammer, clay or guitar. They neither paint nor sculpt--their medium is their being. Whatever their presence touches has increased life. They see and don't have to draw. They are artists of being alive."

-J. Stone

Living in the Sunlight

"The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be."
-Shakti Gawain

We can use the law of gratitude to attract people and good relationships to us. When we are thankful, we exude happiness, health, success and love, and that according to the law of attraction makes us a magnet for other people to be drawn to us. This happens at a subconscious level, as we attract that what we think about. When we are focused on all of our blessings, here and those that are coming to us, we attract more blessings and abundance to us. This includes people, opportunities and the right relationships.

Additionally, gratitude not only pulls people in towards us, it helps us to keep those people who are already part of our world. When we focus on what we have, we tend to notice our abundance and not our lack. Our thought patterns develop into an abundant attitude and we passively and effortlessly begin to attract more of that which we desire, as opposed to those who focus on what is missing, what is lacking, they only attract more of that which is lacking. When we express this gratitude for those people in our lives and notice all the great services they provide to us, we will continue to keep these people in our lives and engage to build and develop those relationships to still stronger and deeper ones. People will want to keep us in their lives and will continuously be magnetically attracted to us.

Gratitude is an inner light that we can use to iluminate our souls. The more we are thankful for, the more light we experience and the more our souls shine out to the world.

I am grateful for the opportunity to post this powerful message today and grateful that you are reading it!

Gratitude Promotes Optimal Health and Healing

"Feelings of gratitude release positive endorphins throughout the body, creating health."
- Sharon Huffman

Recent scientific literature has begun to illustrate that positive feelings, feelings of love, joy and gratitude do have a positive effect on our health and ability to self heal. These strong, positive feelings do so by enhancing the immune system which then enables the body to resist disease and recover more quickly from illness and injury. Not only does our immune system get stronger, but these positive feelings also release endorphins into our blood stream which are the body's natural pain killers, they also help to dilate the blood vessels which increase blood flow to healing tissues and organ systems it also helps reduce stress on the body and heart.

On the other hand, negative emotions, those emotions of fear, dispair, anger, worry and hopelessness reduce the number of and slow down the movement of disease fighting white blood cells in our blood stream and contribute to the development of stroke or cardiac disease by releasing high amounts of adrenaline into the blood stream. This adrenaline raises blood pressure and constricts blood flow to working and healing tissues and organs.

All in all, when we live in gratitude or experience thankful thoughts, we are facilitating and tapping into our healing capabilities and de-stressing our bodies so that our bodies can heal. This contributes to optimal levels of health and longer healthier lives. Feeling grateful will make us feel better!

"You cannot be grateful and unhappy at the same time."
-Woman to Dr. Tom Costa

So when you are upset, fearful or hopeless, spend some time thinking of all of your blessings, learn to acquire hope and live in hope, you will get better, you will beat whatever you are dealing with, you will attract better results to you!